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Is fíor-amadán é!

Redwolf

pleidhce

liudramán

dúramán

raispín

teallaire

amalóig srl....there's a load of em on Gaelic

We could also just call him "dumbass" and figure that English is good enough for the likes of him.

Redwolf

Theres also leibide, pleota...

Looking up a meaning of 'prat':
Slang an incompetent or ineffectual person: often used as a term of abuse.

I'd be saying one of Benjamin's choices:

Pleota

would picture that meaning for me in Irish.

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

Looking at this, it made me immediately think of the word prat as used here on this side of the sea - in Occitan it means a meadow - so it can be a place-name or a family name and in French the equivalent is un pré and a large pré is une prairie, a word that has since emigrated. Off topic I know, but if you ever meet un Monsieur Leprat that doesn't necessary mean he's pleota.

Ah...so that's where our "prairie" comes from! Cool!

Redwolf

I always wondered if you had to be "an oily prat" to want to drink Noilly Prat*.


*Completely ignoring the fact that it is pronounced more like NWUH-lee PRAH, of course.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

Again I wouldn't want keep going off topic but Louis Noilly took over the business - a product created to compete with imported fashionable Italian vermouths at the time - from his father in 1811. He had a beautiful daughter he needed to marry off and there were many suitors whom he thought were more interested in getting hold of the business and their money than her. He imposed two years hard work under his orders to whoever dared to ask for his daughter's hand. A mysterious Englishman by the (improbable) name of Claudius Prat (believe me, I'm not making this up) came by one day, fell in love with the beautiful daughter and accepted all the conditions laid down. At the end of the two years he was offered a partnership in the business and was allowed to add his name to Noilly - he seems to have had enough beautiful children to continue his name ever since 1813. Is maith liom an greadóg seo. So as they say in Marseillan, once you're a Prat, is Prat tú go deo na ndeor.